... how could this be fixed? O_o

Seriously. How can we fix you feeling like your ship is small?

Look down between your legs. Now look back up at your screen. There, your ship will seem a lot bigger now.

Merry Christmas and glad I could help.

I feel like this post might be, in some way, metaphorical.

Boy that escalated quickly.

I fly a machariel, one of the biggest looking bs's around, but when im alone or in a fleet of all battleships & up, I feel the size of a cruiser, and I constantly count the floors to my ships when I fly them to feel the massive ship I am in control of, but its really hard, so I often watch size comparison videos on youtube, or zoom in all the way xD.

Who feels the same, and how do you cope, and how could this be fixed? O_o

It's not the size that matters. It's how you use it.

blame low res textures on big ships. If you fly smaller ship near bigger ship, your smaller ship is crisp, but larger ship is blurry. Just look at the windows of battleships or titans. One window on titan is large and blurry (and awfully low res). windows on large ships are even bigger than cruiser class ships.

textures on large sips are not in scale to smaller ships... thats the reason...

here is why (sorry for my poor skills in MS paint)

I fly a machariel, one of the biggest looking bs's around, but when im alone or in a fleet of all battleships & up, I feel the size of a cruiser, and I constantly count the floors to my ships when I fly them to feel the massive ship I am in control of, but its really hard, so I often watch size comparison videos on youtube, or zoom in all the way xD.

Who feels the same, and how do you cope, and how could this be fixed? O_o

I fly a machariel, one of the biggest looking bs's around, but when im alone or in a fleet of all battleships & up, I feel the size of a cruiser, and I constantly count the floors to my ships when I fly them to feel the massive ship I am in control of, but its really hard, so I often watch size comparison videos on youtube, or zoom in all the way xD.

Who feels the same, and how do you cope, and how could this be fixed? O_o

I fly a machariel, one of the biggest looking bs's around, but when im alone or in a fleet of all battleships & up, I feel the size of a cruiser, and I constantly count the floors to my ships when I fly them to feel the massive ship I am in control of, but its really hard, so I often watch size comparison videos on youtube, or zoom in all the way xD.

Who feels the same, and how do you cope, and how could this be fixed? O_o

It's a result of a lack of visual clues that you're looking at a large object.

There's no:

- Depth effect and parallax, there's no objects in front of it (of a known size) to create visual comparison. This is why the moon looks huge when it's low in the sky, your brain knows its a long way away by parallax, and that it needs to be huge to appear at this distance, ergo it makes it feel larger to you. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_illusion

- No atmosphere. This is actually a 'problem' in real life as well, objects in space that are large and distant don't have the same level of atmospheric dispersal covering them, so they don't look far away to our way of perceiving things. This video lets you see what would happen if EvE ships were in the sky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPeb547pis0 The illusion of size, despite using identical graphical assets, is very stark.

- The camera fit to a central point makes the first issue above more prevalent (sometimes a ship will pass you and look suitably large because it accidentally achieves the properties needed to appear massive).


There's no way to fix any of these issues, really.

I fly a machariel, one of the biggest looking bs's around, but when im alone or in a fleet of all battleships & up, I feel the size of a cruiser, and I constantly count the floors to my ships when I fly them to feel the massive ship I am in control of, but its really hard, so I often watch size comparison videos on youtube, or zoom in all the way xD.

Who feels the same, and how do you cope, and how could this be fixed? O_o

I fly a machariel

Dont

Oh okay, you suggest another low res ship to me? hmm?
When floors to a ship are different heights, it makes one think destroyers are run by dwarves/asuras and titans by, lol Giants/Norns.(gw2 reference hehe)

No, I just think the easiest way to spot a self important asshead is because he comes up on grid as Machariel

Just because I fly the BMW 5 Series of EvE I'm a self-important asshead?

Fixed that for you

I like that fix. xD

If CCP made a workshop to make all the ships high res/better llooking and pilots could vote on what they liked(similar to steam workshop), all ccp would have to do is port them in-game right?

To make their game match the beautiful space games in this this/upcoming year that are going to obviously overshadow eve

Nah youve lost me


What games?

You fly Mach, but you want to design ships you like the look of?

So you fly it for stats only?

Yawn

What, I just would like to see 2013 resolution on my ships.

I fly a machariel, one of the biggest looking bs's around, but when im alone or in a fleet of all battleships & up, I feel the size of a cruiser, and I constantly count the floors to my ships when I fly them to feel the massive ship I am in control of, but its really hard, so I often watch size comparison videos on youtube, or zoom in all the way xD.

Who feels the same, and how do you cope, and how could this be fixed? O_o

You have to be kidding, the Machariel is visually as big as a carrier.

blame low res textures on big ships. If you fly smaller ship near bigger ship, your smaller ship is crisp, but larger ship is blurry. Just look at the windows of battleships or titans. One window on titan is large and blurry (and awfully low res). windows on large ships are even bigger than cruiser class ships.

textures on large sips are not in scale to smaller ships... thats the reason...

here is why (sorry for my poor skills in MS paint)

here is why (sorry for my poor skills in MS paint)

It's a result of a lack of visual clues that you're looking at a large object.

There's no:

- Depth effect and parallax, there's no objects in front of it (of a known size) to create visual comparison. This is why the moon looks huge when it's low in the sky, your brain knows its a long way away by parallax, and that it needs to be huge to appear at this distance, ergo it makes it feel larger to you. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_illusion

- No atmosphere. This is actually a 'problem' in real life as well, objects in space that are large and distant don't have the same level of atmospheric dispersal covering them, so they don't look far away to our way of perceiving things. This video lets you see what would happen if EvE ships were in the sky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPeb547pis0 The illusion of size, despite using identical graphical assets, is very stark.

- The camera fit to a central point makes the first issue above more prevalent (sometimes a ship will pass you and look suitably large because it accidentally achieves the properties needed to appear massive).


There's no way to fix any of these issues, really.

Im empty posting

After finally clicking the image, the first thought that came to my mind was:

Well, d'uh ... if you make a screenshot and zoom it, of course it looks blurry.


I apologize. *lol*

there have been many complaints from titan pilots.

Others in this thread have agreed with me so its not like I'm being stupid, and ita not just the mach(which does not look the size of a carrier), its al the ships with different sized stories(Floors).

For the record, saying because people agree with you that something isn't stupid is absolutely false.

****** and co agreed that all jewish people should be gassed.
People agreed therefore it must be right?

My friends and i agreed that we should have AOE DD on a 20s cd. That's not stupid.

Just how do iI close this, I just wamted to talk to people about cool possibilities and how they feel the massive size of their ship. Which kinda happened, but still a bunch of people insulting and being rude.

****** and co agreed that all jewish people should be gassed.
People agreed therefore it must be right?

My friends and i agreed that we should have AOE DD on a 20s cd. That's not stupid.

Well, this got to Godwin's Law faster than it should have.

Surely this comparison is a bit over the top?

That's what Paul Potts said

That phone salesman guy? If so, good. At least 1 person agrees.